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aceinit's review
3.0
A note for anyone walking into this with no idea of what they’re getting into: This is NOT an adaptation of Carroll’s novel. This is a continuation of Zenescope’s horror-infused, twisted, gory take on the classic. Please note: Horror. Twisted. Gore. If you don’t like those things, please go somewhere else.
Onwards:
Having read the rest of Gregory and the Zenescope teamn’s take on Wonderland, I enjoyed finally getting to read the whole of Alice’s story. Gregory is still weaving an interesting tale, though at times it gets confusing with its lovely non-linear way of going about things. Still, it’s a fun ride if you can sit back, not thing too hard about consistency, and don’t mind gratuitous comic T&A at its finest. Zenescope is quite fond of their busty ladies and skimpy, skimpy costumes, but both the art and the colors are wonderfully rendered and pair well with the story, which is more than I can say for some of the other big-company comics I’m reading.
I’m very much looking forward to moving onto the Wonderland ongoing series, to see where Callie’s adventures take us, and how Violet and perhaps even Alice will fit in.
Onwards:
Having read the rest of Gregory and the Zenescope teamn’s take on Wonderland, I enjoyed finally getting to read the whole of Alice’s story. Gregory is still weaving an interesting tale, though at times it gets confusing with its lovely non-linear way of going about things. Still, it’s a fun ride if you can sit back, not thing too hard about consistency, and don’t mind gratuitous comic T&A at its finest. Zenescope is quite fond of their busty ladies and skimpy, skimpy costumes, but both the art and the colors are wonderfully rendered and pair well with the story, which is more than I can say for some of the other big-company comics I’m reading.
I’m very much looking forward to moving onto the Wonderland ongoing series, to see where Callie’s adventures take us, and how Violet and perhaps even Alice will fit in.
kidclamp's review
1.0
A grown up Alice in the same tiny costume.
This was one of those books where I feel like I am judging it slightly unfairly as it takes place within a world created in other comics that I have not read. At the same time, I feel that while some of the fault is mine for judging part of a larger story, some of the fault goes to writing that doesn't fully flesh out its own story.
Speaking of flesh...there is a lot of fan service here, busty ladies with bursting cleavage, flashes of legs going all the way up, this one definitely is designed to titillate. The drawings are good, I guess, but the Barbie plastic perfection just makes this feel like a less sexy Maxim.
Overall, if you are a huge fan of Alice and fake boobs, maybe there is something here for you, but don't expect a lot of work to have been put into the rest of the book.
This was one of those books where I feel like I am judging it slightly unfairly as it takes place within a world created in other comics that I have not read. At the same time, I feel that while some of the fault is mine for judging part of a larger story, some of the fault goes to writing that doesn't fully flesh out its own story.
Speaking of flesh...there is a lot of fan service here, busty ladies with bursting cleavage, flashes of legs going all the way up, this one definitely is designed to titillate. The drawings are good, I guess, but the Barbie plastic perfection just makes this feel like a less sexy Maxim.
Overall, if you are a huge fan of Alice and fake boobs, maybe there is something here for you, but don't expect a lot of work to have been put into the rest of the book.
nickystrickland's review
1.0
1.5 stars as I didn't hate it but was unaware this was a second 'series' to this story (hints throughout saying look back at #XYZ for backstory/details). Plays with the tropes and characters but without the other part of the backgrounds comes across as messy (not in a horror/play with time way).
tartbarbie's review
4.0
I knew the moment I saw the Alice and Wonderland comic that I had to dive right in. A dark twisted spin on the classic story. Alice is stuck in wonderland on the run from some of my favorite characters. Will she survive and escape wonderland or end up stuck with the jabberwocky forever?
I love the artwork in each book it's detailed, with detailed work on each page. I love that they are in color it just inspires my imagination more. I really enjoyed the unique take on Alice in wonderland it just works so well. The author has taken an old story added some a new exciting spin and created a beautiful piece of artwork. This is one of those comics I ended up reading the whole series one after another all in one sitting. I had to know how it would play out with Alice. I highly recommend checking it out if you are fans of Alice in Wonderland.
I love the artwork in each book it's detailed, with detailed work on each page. I love that they are in color it just inspires my imagination more. I really enjoyed the unique take on Alice in wonderland it just works so well. The author has taken an old story added some a new exciting spin and created a beautiful piece of artwork. This is one of those comics I ended up reading the whole series one after another all in one sitting. I had to know how it would play out with Alice. I highly recommend checking it out if you are fans of Alice in Wonderland.
biblio_lore's review
3.0
I am a big fan of the Alice in Wonderland stories and I'm always on the look out for variations on the themes in the book so I was more than happy to dive into this comic to see how it would play out. I have to say that as far as the core story goes and the inventiveness of the way that the writers reimagined a lot of those familiar characters is excellent. They took some great ideas and really made them their own and the art work and typographical choices really make the book something fun and interesting to read. I particularly love the fact that the Queen of Hearts' speech bubbles are always hearts which are delighful but also make it really easy to figure out who is talking. It's these little details that make the book for me as well as the concepts that they are working with. Why I can't give it more than three stars is the character of Alice herself. While her lack of personality can be a little attributed to her background as per the book, I still feel like I don't know her very well and that they could have done more to flesh out her as a character. I also felt like her wardrobe choices could have been a little more developed. I don't care necessarily that she's scantily clad but I feel like it was a distraction to the reading experience. Alice is the most important character and yet she is also the least interesting and least dressed which starts to feel a little like fan service at the end. It's not enough to stop me from reading more but I was a little disappointed by the treatment of the heroine, particularly when the other female characters were more interesting and better developed.
vampar's review
3.0
Very mature, dark, twisted version of the Alice story. Not sure I'll continue the series.
psykobilliethekid's review
4.0
The book that finally brings everything all together! We get to find out what made Alice go mad, how everything fits together with the other Wonderland stories, and the answers to most of the questions any reader was probably asking when they were reading the other stories leading up to this one. I would recommend reading the previous Wonderland series and the Tales from Wonderland series before reading this book just to make sure you can catch all the references that come up during the story. I haven't read Tales from Wonderland Vol. 3 so I missed out on a lot of the back story for the last part of the book, but I still enjoyed the story from beginning to end without knowing everything from the back story.
This is a must read for anyone that has read the previous Wonderland stores or is just a massive fan of the stories in the Grimm Universe.
This is a must read for anyone that has read the previous Wonderland stores or is just a massive fan of the stories in the Grimm Universe.
keganfrank's review
5.0
Return to Wonderland 2007 to 2008
Return to Wonderland Annuals 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Beyond Wonderland 2008 - 2009
Escape from Wonderland 2009 - 2010
Wonderland V1, V2, V3 2012 - 2013
Tales From Wonderland 2008 - 2009
Alice = 2012
Down the Rabbit Hole 2013
Throught the Looking Glass 2013-2014
Call of Wonderland 2012
Madness of Wonderland 2013
Return to Wonderland Annuals 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Beyond Wonderland 2008 - 2009
Escape from Wonderland 2009 - 2010
Wonderland V1, V2, V3 2012 - 2013
Tales From Wonderland 2008 - 2009
Alice = 2012
Down the Rabbit Hole 2013
Throught the Looking Glass 2013-2014
Call of Wonderland 2012
Madness of Wonderland 2013
mlindner's review
1.0
I have to admit that I do like some of the art by Zenescope's artists. But this is simply stupid and is only an excuse for the art, which is honestly simply soft-core porn, or pinup art if we want to be generous.
It also convinced me that the traditional comic book format with its insistence that you have to acquire a half dozen or more offshoot titles to begin to understand anything going on is absolute capitalistic consumerist bullshit. Every point of the plot that involved any character's motivation was accompanied by one of those little editor's *boxes saying something like "You have read issue X of this other title." There really is no story here and I doubt even if one had accumulated all those other pieces and read them in the right order that there would be a story. And what about all the other places those titles pointed at.
Seriously, it just made me mad at this form of publishing. Soft core porn is fine with me if there is an actual story involved. There is absolutely none, at least not anything coherent, here.
DPL hoopla
It also convinced me that the traditional comic book format with its insistence that you have to acquire a half dozen or more offshoot titles to begin to understand anything going on is absolute capitalistic consumerist bullshit. Every point of the plot that involved any character's motivation was accompanied by one of those little editor's *boxes saying something like "You have read issue X of this other title." There really is no story here and I doubt even if one had accumulated all those other pieces and read them in the right order that there would be a story. And what about all the other places those titles pointed at.
Seriously, it just made me mad at this form of publishing. Soft core porn is fine with me if there is an actual story involved. There is absolutely none, at least not anything coherent, here.
DPL hoopla
rosepetals1984's review
2.0
I take it that most of you know what curiosity killed - which was pretty much my rationale for picking up Zenescope's latest offering in the adult comic Grimm's Fairy Tale series with "Alice in Wonderland."
I took it that this was a followup story to some of Zenescope's other series including "Return to Wonderland" and "Tales from Wonderland." It was my first read from that extension of the series, and I'm torn as to what to feel about it. I didn't mind the dark root of the story, and the violence I could swallow because if you've read any of the series by Zenescope in this vein - you can expect the tales to be dark, violent, and have some kind of twisted moral through the story intended for an adult audience. There's a fair degree of objectification that I personally didn't care for, but I was a little more forgiving just for the measure that the story caught my attention, as well as the consistency in the characters.
But here? I'm not sure what happened. I'll admit I was rather bored and rolling my eyes through much of this narrative. A story of Alice's terror as she was trapped in Wonderland? Not really, considering Alice was pretty much a bubblebrain throughout her experiences. Let me recap the basic plot of the story and go from there.
Alice is a young girl when she's sent in the rabbit hole, and gets trapped in Wonderland. Desperate to go home, she makes a deal with the Jabberwock, who agrees to show her the way out of Wonderland, but he tricks her into making a deal she wasn't aware. Thus, Alice is imprisoned and grows up to an adult in captivity until she's freed and escapes into the heart of the craziness that is Wonderland.
Quite many of the major players from Carroll's tale are here: the Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, Queen of Hearts, etc. All of them particularly sinister. It's an alternative take on the stories, but it can be hard to follow for those who haven't read the other entries in Zenescope's series - it isn't meant to stand alone, so fair warning for those who are picking it up for the first time. I was able to follow along with the story fine despite some of the gaps, but I found the development in this story fairly lacking for what it offered. For one, Alice was a character that was hard to identify with. She stumbles along from place to place, gets caught/fooled quite easily, and doesn't really have much defining her even when - as the story unfolds - she decides to step up to the plate and make herself find a way to reach homeward - with some notably heavy costs in tow. I didn't start fully clicking with the story told until around the time the Queen of Hearts showed up, and by then it was a good way into it. Most of the time before that point, I kept thinking "Pick up story, please pick up - you have an interesting theme you're working with, but it's not showing." Though there were a great deal of other things showing. *coughs*
In all seriousness, I'm for characters growing from a point of weakness into becoming kick-butt and take names in order to get what they aim for, but Alice didn't really have a natural point of getting to (or through) those stages, not without reference to incidents that weren't contained in this volume, so there were some significant story holes to be had here. Also, the "fanservice" was particularly apparent in this versus focusing on the story elements, and that disappointed me in comparison to some of my former reads with this particular series.
I don't know. This is the kind of work that could go either way depending on what you're looking for. It's a light read, I thought the illustrations were decent and had good coloring - some panels had much better consistency than others in some of the chapters. Yet I was disappointed because the tale wasn't nearly as interesting as it could've been in spurts, and the element of sacrifice didn't have nearly as much weight to it as the story purported it to be. Overall, so-so, but not nearly as interesting as some of the fairy tales that were in the earlier Grimm's series.
Overall score: 2/5
Note: I received this as an ARC from NetGalley, from the publisher Zenescope Entertainment.
I took it that this was a followup story to some of Zenescope's other series including "Return to Wonderland" and "Tales from Wonderland." It was my first read from that extension of the series, and I'm torn as to what to feel about it. I didn't mind the dark root of the story, and the violence I could swallow because if you've read any of the series by Zenescope in this vein - you can expect the tales to be dark, violent, and have some kind of twisted moral through the story intended for an adult audience. There's a fair degree of objectification that I personally didn't care for, but I was a little more forgiving just for the measure that the story caught my attention, as well as the consistency in the characters.
But here? I'm not sure what happened. I'll admit I was rather bored and rolling my eyes through much of this narrative. A story of Alice's terror as she was trapped in Wonderland? Not really, considering Alice was pretty much a bubblebrain throughout her experiences. Let me recap the basic plot of the story and go from there.
Alice is a young girl when she's sent in the rabbit hole, and gets trapped in Wonderland. Desperate to go home, she makes a deal with the Jabberwock, who agrees to show her the way out of Wonderland, but he tricks her into making a deal she wasn't aware. Thus, Alice is imprisoned and grows up to an adult in captivity until she's freed and escapes into the heart of the craziness that is Wonderland.
Quite many of the major players from Carroll's tale are here: the Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, Queen of Hearts, etc. All of them particularly sinister. It's an alternative take on the stories, but it can be hard to follow for those who haven't read the other entries in Zenescope's series - it isn't meant to stand alone, so fair warning for those who are picking it up for the first time. I was able to follow along with the story fine despite some of the gaps, but I found the development in this story fairly lacking for what it offered. For one, Alice was a character that was hard to identify with. She stumbles along from place to place, gets caught/fooled quite easily, and doesn't really have much defining her even when - as the story unfolds - she decides to step up to the plate and make herself find a way to reach homeward - with some notably heavy costs in tow. I didn't start fully clicking with the story told until around the time the Queen of Hearts showed up, and by then it was a good way into it. Most of the time before that point, I kept thinking "Pick up story, please pick up - you have an interesting theme you're working with, but it's not showing." Though there were a great deal of other things showing. *coughs*
In all seriousness, I'm for characters growing from a point of weakness into becoming kick-butt and take names in order to get what they aim for, but Alice didn't really have a natural point of getting to (or through) those stages, not without reference to incidents that weren't contained in this volume, so there were some significant story holes to be had here. Also, the "fanservice" was particularly apparent in this versus focusing on the story elements, and that disappointed me in comparison to some of my former reads with this particular series.
I don't know. This is the kind of work that could go either way depending on what you're looking for. It's a light read, I thought the illustrations were decent and had good coloring - some panels had much better consistency than others in some of the chapters. Yet I was disappointed because the tale wasn't nearly as interesting as it could've been in spurts, and the element of sacrifice didn't have nearly as much weight to it as the story purported it to be. Overall, so-so, but not nearly as interesting as some of the fairy tales that were in the earlier Grimm's series.
Overall score: 2/5
Note: I received this as an ARC from NetGalley, from the publisher Zenescope Entertainment.